Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2467 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to clarify the salaries of 14 positions that are specifically mandated by law.

Testimony was received from the Department of Human Resources Development and Hawaii Government Employees Association in support of this measure. The Department of Health supported the intent of the bill.

Your Committee finds that positions that are salaried at the equivalent amount paid to deputy directors need to be competitive for recruitment and retention purposes. This measure would accomplish this by keeping the salaries of those positions on par with deputies or assistants to department heads. Your Committee also recognizes that appointing authorities need the discretion to set salaries for certain appointed positions, which this measure grants to certain authorities.

Your Committee also understands that the Executive Salary Commission is currently reviewing salaries for directors and deputy directors. Although the positions affected by this measure are not included in this review, your Committee believes that the results of this review should be reconciled with the salaries that would be set by this measure.

Accordingly, your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2467, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2467,

H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.